Folding clothes-bar



(No Model.)

L. PEARSON. FOLDING CLOTHES BAR.

Patented Nov. 2

M m w WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LORENZO PEARSON, or CHAPMAN, KANSAS.

FOLDING CLOTHES-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,999, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed February 1'7, 1886. Serial No. 192,388. (No model.)

Improvements in Folding O1othes-Bars; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of. reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification. Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a top view. Fig. 2 is a side view. V

My invention has relation to clothes-bars; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as will be hereinafter set forth,and pointed out in the claims.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A and B designate the two uprights or supports for the rack-frames or section-frames O D E, three of said frames being shown in this construction, although the number of section-frames may be increased or diminished without departing from the character of the invention. Each of said section frames or racks is composed of two end pieces, in which the ends of the parallel rods F are secured. These rods F are preferably five in number in each section-frame, and the middle rod of eachsection-frame has its ends projected through the end pieces, G G, of said section-frames, and these projecting ends H of said middle rods are secured rigidly in seats in the uprights A and B, and form the bearings on which the section-frames turn, to permit the various adj ustments of the latter when necessary ordesirable. I

The uprights A andB are provided upon their outer faces,at their lower ends,with pivoted feetII, securedin place by bolts, nuts, and washers J K L, so that the feet may be turned from a horizontal to a perpendicular To one of these feet I, on its inner face and near the toe of the same, is pivoted the lower end of an adjusting rod or support, M, which is connected near its upper end, at its outer'face,with the upright A by a plain wooden link, N,which is pivoted near each end, by its securing-screws P P, to

said upright A and to the adj usting-rod M. The adjusting-rod M is provided with a number of holes, P, which may be brought into alignment with holes Q in the end bars of the section-frames, and pins R inserted in said aligned holes, to hold the section-frames either in the horizontal orinclined positions to which they may be adjusted for use. These pins P are connected to the uprights by tapes S, passed through the eyes of said pins, the pins being driven into the ends of the middle rod of each section-frame.

These clothes-bars may be opened and set up in a room, the hooks Y on the upper faces of the pivoted feet I entering eyes Z, projectingfrom the edges of the uprights near their lower ends.

These clothes-bars may be only partially unfolded or opened, and in this form may be suspended from hooks driven into thewall of the room.

' Two adjusting rods or supports M may be used, if desired, one at each end of the clothesbar.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination, with the uprights having the pivoted feet, the securing hooks and staples, and the connecting middle rods of the section-frames, having the end bars provided with holes for the locking-pins, of the pivoted adjusting-rod and link and the locking-pins, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, in a clothes-drier, of two connected uprights carrying the sectionframes, a pivoted foot-block, and a bar detachably connecting the section-frame with the foot-block, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 

